But the sounds of silence from the tech and telecom sectors are drowning
out a larger truth, one that some of Snowden’s documents might well
supply in much greater detail. For nearly 20 years, many of these
companies—indeed most of America’s biggest corporate sectors, from
energy to finance to telecom to computers—have been doing the
intelligence community’s bidding, as America’s spy and homeland-security
agencies have bored their way into the nation’s privately run digital
and electronic infrastructure. Sometimes this has happened after initial
resistance, and occasionally under penalty of law, but more often with
willing and even eager cooperation. Indeed, the private tech sector
effectively built the NSA’s surveillance system, and got rich doing it.
***Read article at National Journal***
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